True Detective (HBO) TV Show • Page 55

Thematically, I thought the through-line of these overlooked women restoring balance and retaking the land from these men who were poisoning their homes was satisfying. But getting to that point wasn't satisfying at all. Maybe with another episode or two we could have explored Danvers and Navarro's history deeper to better understand why these two for this case (not in a logistical way, but in a thematic way). Navarro I get somewhat, but Danvers really had nothing riding on solving the case aside from it being her job—which in real life should be enough to want to solve a case, but it's TV so there needs to be something richer beneath the surface.

 

They tried to give her character some depth but the stuff with her husband and son didn’t really lead anywhere. The stuff the with polar was just there to be ~weird~

 

This absolutely did not need more episodes…honestly should have been a 2.5 hour movie

 

This failed on a number of narrative levels. It’s thematically void 90% of the season then it’s spoon-fed during the climax. Really poorly executed, disastrous even, and as most people here have already noticed, most of the plot beats fall apart the instant you give them some thought. This was a disappointment but I still had to laugh at the shoehorned S1 references and the millionth time they show us the spiral symbol. The rushed backstory for Liz was especially laughable. Really—you’re going to reveal the protagonist as a grieving mother in the 11th hour? That’s the twist? Why not share this earlier?

 

That was revealed super early?

 

yeah lol literally the first episode

 

And it went unmentioned throughout bc why? My wife and I both had totally forgotten by the finale

 

i don’t think it went unmentioned either. holden’s name was brought up several times and we saw the same two or three flashback glimpses every episode. she just didn’t unload all of her feelings about it and want to talk about it until the finale where she almost died. of all of the thousands of issues to have with this pretty bad season of tv, that one seems pretty silly lol

 

We honest-to-god did not catch that lol. And I am not one to watch with my phone out, so I wasn’t distracted. It just wasn’t clear.

 

It’s ok. For the first few episodes I had no idea about the mine/poisoning the water. When it became more central to the story I was like where is this coming from

 

yeah the grieving mother stuff was brought up through out, that stuffed polar bear with the missing eye was holden's.

 

That was also something I almost missed lmao but I did have the thought “why would Navarro have that?” when it was placed on the bed

 

Twist and shout baby

 

Knowledge retention issues by the viewer between weekly episode drops is not the show’s problem. Especially for something that’s only 6 episodes long.

 

Maybe not but probably a sign of a larger problem, that the main characters’ internal worlds were rarely explored in the script itself, disconnected from the primary conflict, and the show relied on these fleeting glimpses that seem airdropped in without context. I probably missed them because they’re weightless without context. Not well-executed at all.

 

For the first two episodes I thought Danvers and Hank were divorced and Pete was their son.

 

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lol I def thought that at least through ep 1 if not 2

 

I did too until the end of episode 1.

 

well,

 

Not surprising. Finale had the highest ratings of the whole show I think, and viewership kept going up as the season went on, which I thought was surprising.

 

Nic is also being super unprofessional and burning bridges left and right

 

ii don't think there was ever a scenario where they would have given it back to him but the franchise as a whole would be more interesting if it was treated as the anthology that it is and creative control shifted with each season

 

I’m just so confused by the critical reception of this thing. Like I don’t believe that they’d paid for positive reviews, but the final product really was messy and undeserving of it all. Why was it praised so highly?